jeff wrote:Does anyone have learning goals in mind for the coming year?

Get most of the way through the Aoidoi commentary and notes for Hesiod's Theogony. This goes slowly, but I need to make some firm decisions about what vocabulary not to define all the time and put in a list someplace else. I just took a nice look at Pharr's Virgil and he has a sheet of words at the end you're expected to know but everything else is defined on the same page as the line of poetry occurs. I'll probably go with that.

At least one lesson a week from the North and Hillard Greek Prose Composition, including actual vocabulary memorization.

It's amusing to me to be able to say that I bought a house before I ever learned to drive, but I think perhaps 2004 will find me taking driver's education and getting a license (assuming I don't plow down too many pedestrians during training). Carting bonsai about is easier when you have your own transportation. Fortunately a car time-share company recently opened in Madison, so there'll be no need for me to buy one of those, too. More money for books!

1. Learn to write chinese, by completing the necessary book (the one and only, by Bjorksten).
2. Complete Basic Chinese by Yip Po Ching.
3. Complete Henry Carr Pearson's intermediate Latin prose composition based on Cicero, having memorised all the new grammar vocabulary etc. I just bought this book from ebay! (Then, with me fluent,
write an explicit latin story set in a bishopric in brittany - l'éveché)
4. Formally do Armenian grammar, script, vocabulary. I speak it anyway but don't write or know the language structure, it's too natural if you like.
5. Learn Italian, with nothing but Hugo Italian in Three Months (what a book!)
6. Find some one to take this stray cat in and give him a place to sit his latin exam! Then gain close to full marks in this exam. Using Supines to shock the examiners. I'd lose marks anyway as they would have to assume that I don't know a subjunctive of purpose, but it would still be nice.

And I suggest you do the same

No, but I sincerely wish you all the best of luck in improving, it's great to have completed something. Arte et labore

I've been having a wild cover of grammar with Chase & Phillips. But I haven't been doing the excercise seriously.; only the Greek to English(or Korean) translations. So I've started doing the English to Greek translation excercises, beginning with the very early chapters again.